Housing recovery opens window to fix homeowner tax breaks

The U.S. housing market continues to recover. This week, we learned that the number of homeowners who are newly delinquent on their mortgages has fallen to pre-2007 levels. Housing prices also rose 9.3 percent in February for the biggest year-to-year advance since May 2006. To top it off, Fannie Mae, the government-owned mortgage financier, said it is returning $59.4 billion to taxpayers after a record quarterly profit.
This newfound strength creates an opportunity to address two tax breaks that are expensive, distortive and unfair: deductions for mortgage-interest payments and local property taxes………………………………….Full Article: Source